Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-07-09


 VelSol camp rext Friday, to remain over Sunday.
 Mrs. H. B. Summers returned last week from visit to her daughter at Sil- yer King
 Hon. P R. Brady started for Califor- mia on Sunday, intending to make visit of several weeks.
 MAP. walbridge, of Casa Grande, will shortly remove to Phenix to take charge of an important enterprise.
 Judge J. D. Walker of the famous Ve- kol, passed through Florence on Thurs day, on his way to the Reymert camp.
 As was predicted at the time E anderson started out as a banker in Tucson, the IaeobEes would finally have it their own way.
 The board of supervisors have put in a ~ery busy week attending to equaliza- sion matters iR addition to their other duties.
 Edmond Bouvaille, a practical we'll digger, is prepared to dig wells by the foot or contract. Address through the Florence postofice.
 The new school trustees held meet ing last Saturday and adjourned to await the arrival cf the school laws, which have not yet come to hand.
 NIT. Henry Blauvelt, who holds posi- tion in the office of Judge J. D. Walker at the Vekol. went to Pinal on Thursday in company with MT. Walker
 Gov Zulick delivered the oratioa in Phenix on the Fourth and afterwards went to Yuma to look into the prison af- fairs. His address is well spoken of,
 Misses Bessie and Minnie Marshall. daughters of Mir. and Mrs. c. M. Mar shali, of Casa Grande, are on visit home from attending school in Califor- mia
 Mr. Benson Walker and wife started on Tuesday for visit to Mrs. Walkers relations at Raceland, Louisiana. They will probably remain away a couple of months.
 Fix Gov. A. P. K. Stafford, formerly of Arizona, and now a resident of Tarpon Springs, Florida, is said to be in very poor health this summer, and has gone to northern New York to seek relief.
 Miss Mayhew, daughter of MT. J. F. Mayhew, of the halfway house, on the Casa Grande road was among the ladies who enjoyed the very pleasant dance in Florence on the evening of the Fourth.
 MT. E. A. Sake, owner of the townsite of Saxeville, near the Vekol, was in town this week. His new town is all surveyed aud Platted, and the well is now down more than eighty feet; water is expected at l4O feet.
 California potatoes are carried across the continent and sold at prices averaging one dollar per hundred pounds less than the same product Gan be sold at points in Arizona. The same peculiarity exists m it's fruit exports.
 Mir. T. D Hammond, chairman of the board of supervisors, arrived on Monday evening from hts ranch at American Flag, in the Santa Catalinas Mrs. Hammond accompanied her husband and will remain here until the session of the board ends
 The heavens got up display of fire works on the evening of the Fourth. The vivid lightnings and rolling thunder were periodically inclined and they were abiy and industriously supported by the ubiquitous small boy and his inseparable frecracker.
 Mir. J. F. Reynolds came up from the Vekcl on Wednesday evening and went to the Reymert mill at DeNoon, to re- sume the duties of engineer. Mr Rey- holds is 6rst-class manipulator of the valves of an engine and possesses per feet knowledge of milling machinery.
 There is probably no living person among the English speaking people who can talk the Pima language more fluent. ly than Judge J. D. Walker. His knowledge of Indian lore would make g very interesting volume could he be in. duced to reduce to writing his experienc. es with the Pimas.
 Owing to the necessity of repairs tc the pump boiler the Vekol mill has not been able to run at night, as its power was needed to pump water for use dur. ing the day. The repairs have been completed and the mill now runs contin- uously. The well supplies plenty of wa. ter fer even larger mill and better re suits are looked for in the future.
 The Mesilla Valley, New Mexico Democrat notes the arrival at that place of Mir. J. c. Waterman, general manager of the San Pedro Cattle Company, of thil county. His company has just complet cd the purchase of the Aleman rancf near Mesilla and will move 20OO head O cattle to it from Lake Valley and 15Ot head of steers from this county for fat tehing purposes.
 Heavy rains in the Pinal mountain have filled all the sources of supply ant the streams and arroyos are running ful banks. The rains seem to have beel quite general all around Florence, al though but little has fallen in the town The washes coming into the valley iron the southward were running with wate day or two ago, and the river shows ev idences of heavy rains above.
 Although strict examination is mad of all parties coming into Florence, b guards stationed at the various road